People are saying good things about Flex today.

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With less than 10 lines of code, developers can add the new WebService component into a Flex application and connect to a Web service without binding to any server-side code. No other technology on the market, including DHTML and Ajax, provide such an elegant and robust Web client solution.

Moreover, MXML–the language on which the Flex 2 framework runs–takes such a minimalist approach to developing Web UIs that it beats Ruby and all other Java Web frameworks hands down. So it’s worth your while to try rich Internet application programming with Flex 2. You’ll think twice before using Java or any server-side scripting language to write Web UIs.

Flex 2 is out of Beta and ready for primetime. Here’s an article with advise on how to get your manager on the Flex 2 bandwagon.

Adobe is distributing the Google Toolbar with downloads of Shockwave. Will the Flash player be far behind?

On the one hand I don’t like seeing things like this bundled together but it isn’t so bad when you get a notification during install so that you can choose.

Otherwise I’m very happy to see Google and Adobe working together. Perhaps this will lead to Google treating SWFs better when it comes to indexing. Better yet I’d like to see Google use Flash more often in their offerings. Google Maps is very good but I think Yahoo’s beta Map is better and it uses Flash. There’s even a mashup out there of Google Maps redone with Flash that is better.

And remember, this comes on the heals of the news that PDF exporting won’t be included in the next version of MS-Office. So that relationship is going south. I wonder if anyone at MS is aprehensive about the likes of Google and Adobe working closely together.